Companion Auto Update

Keep your website safe!

We understand that you might not always be able to check if your wordpress site has any updates that need to be installed, especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work.
This plugin enables background auto-updating for all plugins, all themes and the wordpress core (both major and minor updates).
We give you full control over what is updated and what isn’t, via the settings page you can easily disallow auto-updating for either plugins, themes or wordpress core.

Available settings

Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. We offer settings to enable or disable automatic updating for plugins, themes, wordpress core updates (both minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files.

Know what’s happening

We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available, when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated.
But if you don’t want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to see what happened.

Advanced Controls

You can control auto-updating per plugin via the plugin filter.
For example: If you have Woocommerce installed but you do not wan’t to have it auto-updated you can now disable auto-updating for Woocommerce only, so your other plugins will continue to be updated.

Scheduling

By default the updater will run twice a day, but you can change this to every hour or to daily. When set to daily you can even set the time at which it should run, this way you can make sure that it will not overload your server by letting it run at times with less activity. The same settings can be set for notifications.

Can I disable auto updating for certain plugins?

I’m using cPanel and auto-updating doesn’t work

A few years ago cPanel added a line by default that would disable auto-updating. According to cPanel this can be fixed by removing the line “AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED” from your wp-config file.

My theme by Elegant Themes is not updating

For some reason this plugin seems to have trouble with updating themes by Elegant Themes on some installs. I’ve reached out to Elegant Themes and they couldn’t help me. They said that if you’re experiencing problems with it you should contact them and they would help you with it.

3.4.2 (June 28, 2019)

Fixed: Times being all messed up

New: Set the time of email notifications

Fixed: Email notifications will no longer show as active on the status page when they actually aren’t active

3.4.1 (May 4, 2019)

Fixed issue where sometimes settings wouldn’t safe

Fixed issue where sometimes the status page would show incorrect times at events

3.4.0 (April 4, 2019)

(Actually) Fixed: Cronjobs disabled shouldn’t be a ‘critical error’

New status icon at the status tab to quicker see issues

Fixed: You’re not allowed to view error

3.3.9 (March 11, 2019)

Fix: Sometimes emails would be sent twice

Fix: Cronjobs disabled shouldn’t be a critical error

Fix: Sometimes update reminder emails would not send at all

Improvement: Removed “Howdy” from emails

Improvement: Fixed a few typos

3.3.8 (March 1, 2019)

Fix: Show correct timestamp in log

Fix: Fixed a few typos

New: Filter the log for Plugins, Themes or All

New: Click on a plugins’ name to show the changelog

Improvement: Added more checks to the status log

Improvement: Added better documentation when issues show up

3.3.7 (February 2, 2019)

Fix: In some rare cases various errors showed up when saving settings, this is fixed now

3.3.6 (January 14, 2019)

Security improvements

3.3.5 (January 5, 2019)

New: See WordPress & PHP version on the status page

New: WordPress core updates now show in status log

Improvement: Split Update log and Status tab

Improvement: Update log now shows new version (no old version yet, sorry)

Improvement: If major updates are disabled the update nag will no longer show

Fix: Error Notice: Undefined index: menloc

3.3.4 (December 24, 2018)

Improved: Few tweaks to the new warning icon

Improved: Changed a few strings to be clearer to understand

3.3.3 (December 22, 2018)

New: Set the time for Core updates

New: Welcome screen after plugin activation to help new users find their way

New: Warning icon in the top bar when something is wrong

Improvement: More logs have been added to the status page

Improvement: Redesigned support tab

Improvement: We’ve checked all the text in the plugin and made some changes to make translating this plugin a little bit easier

Improvement: The mobile design has been improved big time

Fix: Some sites still recieved core update emails even when disabled, this should not happen anymore.

3.3.2 (December 20, 2018)

Global error? No need to contact us anymore, let the plugin fix it for you!

3.3.1 (November 15, 2018)

Fix: Can’t Find constant error

Improvement: We’ve listened, Scheduling and Plugin filter are now two seperate tabs and Plugin filter is renamed to Select plugins

Improvement: Major core updates are now disabled by default for new installs

3.2.1 ( October 2, 2018)

3.2.0 (August 11, 2018)

Improved: Email notifications just got better and now contain version numbers.

Improved: Explained the difference between major and minor WordPress core updates.

3.1.5 (August 9, 2018)

I almost feel silly for pushing this as an update but the theme update notification said theme instead of themes.

3.1.4 (August 8, 2018)

Fix: No theme update notification

3.1.3 (August 3, 2018)

Fix: Issue with , in links in email notifications

3.1.2 (May 14, 2018)

Fix error: Notice: Undefined index: cau_page

3.1.1 (May 12, 2018)

Reorganized the dashboard to cleaner

3.1.0 (May 11, 2018)

New: Status page. We’ve introduced a status page to be able to provide better help when an error occurs. This page will be updated with even more info in coming updates.

3.0.9 (April 17, 2018)

Fix: Successful update emails to multiple adresses. We took our time to really test this one but it works now! Promise!

Update available emails might still be broken.

Improvement: Email notifications no long show updates done in the last 2 days but instead changed depending on the interval of the emails.

3.0.8 (March 22, 2018)

Fix: Error “Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference”

3.0.7 (March 15, 2018)

We’ve recieved a bunch of feedback since the last few updates and we’ve listened!

If the schedule is NOT daily – hide the hours object. show it only when daily is selected.

Disable Notifications: Many requested a “Never” option for email notifications, this was already there, just on the dashboard. We want to keep this plugin clean so we’re not going to add 2 settings for this, instead we now show a message stating “To disable email notifications go to the dashboard and uncheck everything under Email Notifications”.

Some people reported settings on the schedule page not saving, they were saved but the page required a reload to display the changes. We get how this can be confusing so we’ve fixed this.

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